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“A few years ago I started playing piano self-taught. I’m now a dad of 2 with that works more than 40 hrs/week so being able to learn music theory on my drive to work has been very convenient. Last year I took a basic online theory course but still found myself looking at some chords from some pieces and thinking “what the hell kind of chord is that?” but thanks to the episode on non-chord tones and Matt’s advice to not just slap try to slap a label on each chord in isolation, but to look at its function in the chord progression, has made things a lot more clear for me. Tonight I was planning on learning how to play a fancy version of Happy Birthday since I never really practiced that song in all this time. I downloaded some sheet music, was about to start learning it… but then I thought, “wait a minute, I should come up with my own fancy version of this song”. So that’s what I’ve been doing tonight. So far I figured out a way to squeeze in a German augmented 6th before the 2nd time you play the dominant chord, added a suspension to the “happy birthday dear…[name]” part, and instead of ending with the standard G-D-G progression I swapped it with an A-D-G progression (thanks to your episode on secondary dominants). I’m also thinking instead of ending with the tonic on the last chord I might swap it with a fully diminished chord so that I can then play it a 2nd time in Bb, but first I’ll listen to your episodes on modulation before I get too far into that”
RobZ987 via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
05/26/22
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“I am truly addicted to this podcast. Very well done, easy to follow and it really fills the gaps in my music knowledge.”
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Canada ·
03/03/20
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“In episode four what is the name of the year training app?”
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05/26/21
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“Phenomenal podcast for any musician!”
xRaoulx via Apple Podcasts ·
Germany ·
02/02/20
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